Beetle

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beetle \Bee"tle\, v. i. [See {Beetlebrowed}.]
     To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang;
     to jut.
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           To the dreadful summit of the cliff


           That beetles o'er his base into the sea. --Shak.
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           Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), n. [OE. betel, AS. b[imac]tl,
     b?tl, mallet, hammer, fr. be['a]tan to beat. See {Beat}, v.
     t.]
     1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
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     2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering
        process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; --
        called also {beetling machine}. --Knight.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beetled}
     (-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Beetling}.]
     1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
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     2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle
        or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beetle \Bee"tle\, n. [OE. bityl, bittle, AS. b[imac]tel, fr.
     b[imac]tan to bite. See {Bite}, v. t.]
     Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the
     outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when
     they are folded up. See {Coleoptera}.
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     {Beetle mite} (Zool.), one of many species of mites, of the
        family {Oribatid[ae]}, parasitic on beetles.
  
     {Black beetle}, the common large black cockroach ({Blatta
        orientalis}).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  beetle
       adj : jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: {beetling}]
       n 1: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to
            form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
       2: a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually
          wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or
          for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing [syn: {mallet}]
       v 1: be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over
            the edge of the town" [syn: {overhang}]
       2: fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up
          the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
       3: beat with a beetle

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "beetle":
     arachnid, arthropod, beetle-browed, beetling, bug, caterpillar,
     centipede, chilopod, daddy longlegs, digester, diplopod, fly,
     hang out, hang over, harvestman, hexapod, impend, impend over,
     impendent, impending, incumbent, insect, jut, jutting, larva,
     lean over, lowering, macerator, maggot, masher, millepede,
     millipede, mite, nymph, overhang, overhanging, overhung, pending,
     poke, potato masher, pouch, pout, project, project over,
     projecting, protrude, pulp machine, pulper, pulpifier, scorpion,
     smasher, spider, stand out, superincumbent, tarantula, thrust over,
     tick
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Beetle
     (Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in
     Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly
     the beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four
     feet, "which has legs above its feet, to leap withal." The
     description plainly points to the locust (q.v.). This has been
     an article of food from the earliest times in the East to the
     present day. The word is rendered "cricket" in the Revised
     Version.